esmorir

13th century. Probably from Latin *exmorī, from ex + morior (“I die”); but compare Old English smorian (“to choke, suffocate”).

• IPA^(key): /esmoˈɾiɾ/

esmorir (first-person singular present esmoro, first-person singular preterite esmorín, past participle esmorido)

1. (intransitive, archaic) to faint
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 308:

     Et seýosselle tãto sange que c[a]eu esmorido, et coydarõ todas suas cõpañas que era morto

     And he loss so much blood that he collapsed to the ground, faint, and all of his troopers thought that he was dead

• “esmorir” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “esmor” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.